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Galloway, Grace Growden, d. 1782. Papers, 1778-1781.

Title: Papers, 1778-1781.

These diaries and letters detail the difficulties Grace Galloway had in securing the property once owned by her family. Social life among prominent Philadelphians is also described.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474421 View

Franklin, Walter, b. 1727. Letterbook, 1772-1773.

Title: Letterbook, 1772-1773.

Franklin's copies of his letters to John Pemberton and Thomas Lightfoot, Philadelphia, refer to his financial difficulties, business and land transactions, and efforts to adjust the controversies between them in a legal and equitable manner. Franklin was a New York merchant.

ArchivalResource: [58] p., bound ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540365 View

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892). Records, 1838-1901.

Title: Records, 1838-1901.

Records of the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, its predecessor, the Indian Committee (1837-1850) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite), and the minutes (1893-1901) of the Sub-committee on Indian Concerns of the Committee on Philanthropic Labor. Also includes the letterbooks of John Saunders of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Joint Committee, and correspondence of Barclay White, Jesse W. Griest, Thomas Lightfoot, Samuel M. Janney, Levi K. Brown, Samuel Jeanes, and Albert Lamborn Green. Reports include information about the Senecas, the Otos and the Otoe Agency, the Santees and the Santee Agency, the Great Nemaha Agency, the Sauks, and the Fox.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33431363 View

Lightfoot Manuscripts, 1737-1948.

Title: Lightfoot Manuscripts, 1737-1948.

Contains the papers of the Lightfoot family including Thomas and Mary Lightfoot concerning their service at the Great Nemaha Indian Agency. Includes correspondence, business and legal documents, such as agreements, reports, and several census. Also a journal of Mary (Bonsall) Lightfoot (1707-1777), a prominent Quaker minister describing her journey to visit Quaker meetings in Concord Quarter in 1757. Three other journals (typescript copies) have been attributed to Thomas Lightfoot (1728-1793). These accounts document visits to Quaker meetings in the mid Atlantic region, New Jersey to Virginia, from 1757 to 1760. Also, a 1781 testimony concerning Susanna (Hatton) Lightfoot, Thomas' wife.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50427024 View